The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (version 2)
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- 2016-07-05
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- librivox, audiobooks, poetry, William Blake
- Language
- English
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LibriVox recording of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (version 2) by William Blake.
Read in English by P. J. Taylor.
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
The Marriage of Heaven & Hell is William Blake’s masterpiece – a piously blasphemous reimagining of the duality of good and evil as an eternal dance of equally essential polarities.
Good, in Blake’s complex cosmology, is defined by a blind deference to the external, rational order embodied by the tyrant and the priest. Evil is the chaotic and revolutionary impulse that defies all reason and authority.
While Blake’s sympathies are clearly with the Romantic revolutionary, he argues for the necessity of both sides, which create balance through their eternal opposition. (Summary by PJ Taylor)
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Read in English by P. J. Taylor.
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
The Marriage of Heaven & Hell is William Blake’s masterpiece – a piously blasphemous reimagining of the duality of good and evil as an eternal dance of equally essential polarities.
Good, in Blake’s complex cosmology, is defined by a blind deference to the external, rational order embodied by the tyrant and the priest. Evil is the chaotic and revolutionary impulse that defies all reason and authority.
While Blake’s sympathies are clearly with the Romantic revolutionary, he argues for the necessity of both sides, which create balance through their eternal opposition. (Summary by PJ Taylor)
For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.
For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org. M4B Audiobook (14MB)
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- 2016-07-05 01:59:21
- Call number
- 11036
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- ABBYY FineReader 11.0
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- 0.0.14
- Ppi
- 600
- Run time
- 34:33
- Year
- 2016
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